“Look at the Scoreboard!”
You know me. I'm not backward about coming forward. And I'll admit, when I used to play football, I used to enjoy a bit of sledging. For me it was just a bit of fun – a way to bring a bit of wit to physical contest.
I remember one rainy and mucky away game. After an unimpressive and ugly passage of play, one of their team lobs a lame attempt at a shot towards the goal. Lucky for him, there's a bit of confusion between the goalie and another bloke, and the ball wobbles across the line.
The guy who scored stats jumping about like someone's just set fire to his shorts. “Take it easy mate,” I said. “If that goal was any uglier I might have mistaken it for your sister.”
“Look at the scoreboard!” he said.
Hmpf. I thought that was a pretty weak comeback. It's something you get a lot from the unimaginative, but what does it prove when you're 5 minutes into a game? (We went on to win 3-1.)
I got a few similar replies to my last post, about how claims that Australia is facing a financial meltdown are totally overblown, that were in a similar vein.
“If the recovery's on track, why have house prices been so slow to get going?”
I could take issue with this. If house prices keep growing like they have for the past six months, we'll be seeing 8%+ growth rates in a short time. That's not too bad.